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5 Reasons For Making An Investment Club Your Next Side Hustle

YoungUpstarts

Without action, an entire generation could miss out on the long-term capital gains of investing in the stock market. For equity trading, the general rule of thumb is to start an investment portfolio of at least $1000. While 4 in 5 millennials currently have money in savings, only 1 in 2 are investing. Low $$ Barrier to Entry.

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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

Most boards did some level of work to determine the FMV of a company’s stock but generally options were priced between 10% and 15% of a company’s then preferred price (because common equity sits behind preferred equity there is typically a discount applied to the FMV of common stock to account for this “overhang”).

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Mortgage for Business? Here’s Why!

The Startup Magazine

Another key advantage is a monthly business mortgage payment typically costs less than monthly rental amounts. Furthermore, the equity on the building will grow with every mortgage payment you make. That means you can more accurately plan your future business expenses and better handle current financial issues like overhead costs.

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Startup Equity For Employees

www.payne.org

Startup Equity For Employees. 7 Salary vs Equity. The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers. Buying your stock would cost $200,000! From Payne.org Wiki. 3 Dilution.

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Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes

www.seriesseed.com

.  That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing.   Based on the comments received, both on the blog and in the many deals in which these documents have been used, I am convinced that the terms of a simple set of equity documents are really not an issue. 

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How Startup Valuations are Driving Company Equity

ReadWriteStart

With the rise of startups and growing businesses , it has become more critical for investors to have a thorough understanding of equity to be aware of all of the advantages they are receiving from the companies they have invested in. What is Company Equity? Types of equity. Common stock. The selection of Senior Officers.

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Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities: Why That Threat has Peaked but Others Remain

This is going to be BIG.

While those things are fun and exciting (well, maybe except for school), many argue that those things come at a cost—the monetary cost of living in NYC. That’s a very incomplete way to look at cost. The other major factor in what it costs to live in NYC is the opportunity cost of physical space. my annual salary.